LCB and I both took parental hits last week, during the winter storm that froze the alligators in North Carolina and left us considering a move to the equator. LCB took his parental hit by deciding to pull out all his old winter clothes, circa The Early Chicago Years of Our Marriage. Early on in […]
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Because Not Every Day Can Be a Ten & Not Everyone Can Live by a Dairy Queen
The other day, my older son told a funny story about a former student of mine. The story reminded me of a paper this boy had written for my seventh grade honors English class almost three years ago, one that played a part in inspiring me to write a post on summer parenting and childhood […]
Missing the Obvious: I’m Back for More & Oh, Joy! There Are Two Parts!
There’s nothing like motherhood to illuminate your incompetencies and to remind you of the high likelihood that at any given time, strange substances might become affixed to your personage or your offspring’s personage. Here’s how my latest reminder went down. One morning recently, I took the small people to school and then went to talk […]
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My Boys in the Atlantic
As I was going through pictures yesterday, it occurred to me how many shots I have of all three of my male family members where they are mostly, if not entirely, submerged in a wave. As I’ve mentioned before, we are not merpeople, but we do manage to make the most of the water. Case […]